“Picturebook Poesis: The Ecology of Narrative Space in Poetry Picturebooks with a focus on Sheree Fitch’s Merry-Go-Day and Night Sky Wheel Ride”  presented at  the Visual/Verbal Texts Symposium, a three day invitational, international symposium hosted by the Centre for Research in Young People's Texts and Cultures at the University of Winnipeg, June 25-27, 2013.

Panel Member of "Faces of Places: Moving  Beyond the Tourist Gaze in Atlantic Canadian Books for Children" (with Vivian Howard, Dal U, and Sue Fisher, UNBF) for "Atlantic Canada in a Shifting World," the Eighth Thomas H. Raddall Symposium at Acadia,from July 5-7, 2013. Paper: “Resistant Representations of  Place and Childhood in 1990s Atlantic Picturebooks.”